Listening in on the Fostoria web, the CSX E-W mainline is a mess with outlawed trains east and west of Fostoria and trains stacked up. The dispatcher just denied request for track inspection due to an accident with fatalities last night.
Anyone know anything about this?
ed
Saw on Trainorders.com that there was a car-train collision east of Fostoria.
Kevin
CSX again![banghead]
and here we go yet again!!! [sigh]
csx engineer
Is CSXT equipping its trains with cranes to grab cars and place them in the path of its trains? If not, how is this CSXT’s fault?
So a car pulls in front of a train – not the engineer’s fault – and somehow you still choose equate this with an excess of incidents on CSX? You are disappointingly predictable. Surprise us one of these days and act like a grownup, willya?
Awesome again! [banghead]
Of all the crossings on all the railroad in the world, this car had to pick a CSX crossing, so someone could somehow find fault with CSX.[D)]
Fella- you’ve lead us to believe that you’re older than about 11 years old. How 'bout you start acting that way.[sigh]
2008 Grade Crossing Accidents through July 31. Source: FRA
UP - 81
Amtrak - 70
NS - 69
CSX - 67
BNSF - 55
CN - 16
KSC - 10
CP - 3
Now back to your regularly scheduled thread.
!!! What, NS isn’t in the lead!? How can this be? In PA, NS is (in)famous for putting them all over the place, except on teh rails!
Maybe that anti-CSXer has a full time job with a national media company. You know, the ones who treat every incident involving an Amtrak train like an airliner crash.
NS doesn’t run in California. UP and Amtrak do.
Their engines do! So to the general media…whatever the ownership of the engine involved in the incident is - that is the company that had the incident.
Ain’t the media great!
NJTransit has a fair share of grade crossing accidents too. I see it on the local news occasionally and was on a train that unfortunately killed someone who I guess tried to beat us at a crossing.
Tree: A more rational stat would be accidents per million train miles. Got time to figure it?
Did that already in another thread. CSX was in the middle of the pack there, too. KCS was the one with the black eye.
The numbers I posted were simply how many grade crossing accidents the FRA had recorded, in response to Awful’s implication that CSX was so terrible. Info is on the FRA website.
Ditto. In fact, to be even more better you’d need to factor-in the number of grade crossings, Ja?
And then number of un protected crossings,Protection lights only, single arm, fully protected, sight distances both road and rail, background noise, 30 day vehicle average (truck and car), road geometry (flat or berm over track), any close highway intersections, Other RRS in close proximity, and ad infinitium. I believe the FRA puts out a report on these considerations but is always a couple years behind.